Nov 12, 2019
This stealth game with a simple premise and slapstick humor created by House House, has recently become an internet sensation, memes and all. I have been following along Untitled Goose Game’s journey since 2017 and have been preparing myself to honk at, annoy, and steal from all of the townspeople. Thanks to the developers, I was able to play a copy on the Nintendo Switch and I was not disappointed.
The idea for the game started out as a joke and has evolved from there. It seems that everyone can relate with similar stories of their encounters with unpredictable geese. They don’t seem too menacing, but approach one the wrong way and expect to be chased. There’s just something comical about how they waddle and House House has captured the goose’s movements and actions quite realistically.
You’re a Mischievous Goose, Not A Malicious Goose
Even though the goose’s antics never get too out of hand, some people were hesitant on being horrible to lovely people minding their own business. However, to a certain extent, the game allows you do decide on how to accomplish goals, via a to-do list, so you get to project some of your own personality into the goose. The classical background music also cleverly reacts to your steps and antics which made me feel encouraged to follow through with my plans. Well, not so much plans as let’s just throw everything everywhere and see what happens.
Every character is faceless and there is no dialogue but they’re still so emotive. They’re all just living out their daily routines until you come by and give them a hard time. I actually enjoyed returning to the same areas again and seeing the townspeople putting their items back in their place and fixing things I might have broken. This way I don’t feel as guilty because nothing you do is permanent. No harm, no fowl. It also allows for you to do things over and over again, like a true sandbox game.
You can and should purchase Untitled Goose Game on the Nintendo Switch here, or on Epic Games Store here.
- Nov 12, 2019
Restore a fantasy castle to its former glory as it was ruined by the long absence of the pretty princess. Pretty Princess Magical Coordinate lets you decorate your castle with more than a thousand furniture and teaches you how to be a true princess with fun mini-games.
Thanks to our friends at Gematsu, we have some more information about this adorable game! Check our some more details about this upcoming game as well as the new release trailer for Pretty Princess Magical Coordinate.
Dress Up and Decorate
Pretty Princess Magical Coordinate allows you to live the life of a princess. Decorate 20 rooms in the worn down castle and restore it to its former magical appearance. Once your castle is all shiny and cute again you will want to become a real princess.
You will be able to create the princess avatar of your dreams with a selection of more than 50 beautiful dresses and a whooping 25 hair styles to choose from. The game offers a huge variety of options to create your own self as a princess.
Mini Games – Lots of Mini Games
Pretty Princess Magical Coordinate much like Fantasy Life offers plenty of mini games. How do you become a princess? By learning the foundation of real princes behavior. All of this is learned by playing the many mini-games that come in the form of lessons such as table manors and other fun activities!
Multiplayer!
There is no fun in being a princess when you can’t share your wealth with friends. Four players can play the game together and enjoy the mini-games and many other aspects of the game in the exciting multiplayer mode.
Release Date
Pretty Princess Magical Coordinate will release on December 5th in Japan. As the Nintendo eShop is region unlocked, you are free to download the game from the Japanese eShop, keep in mind that English support may or may not be available. You can also pre-order the physical version at Play-Asia.
A western release for the game has not yet been announced, I have reached out to the developers for more information if and when the game might be available in the west! For now this adorable trailer is all we have.
- Nov 11, 2019
Wild Child is a cute and relaxing 3D RPG game currently in the works by the team at Mijugames.
The games starts with some very relaxing music, and an environment that inspires the desire to explore. Upon taking your first steps, you can already tell that you are set on a curious and whimsical adventure, with much to see and do. You play as a curious, young red-headed girl who is beset on befriending all the local wildlife. This happy heroine with an abundance of pheomelanin is ready to become on with nature, and it is up to us to help her do it.
To make friends on this expansive island, one must simply gather the materials required to make each animal happy. It is a very simple process that is as relaxing as it is rewarding. The little heart that pops up lets you know that you’ve made an adorable new friend, and may go about the process of wooing others.
The gameplay is lacking a little bit of fluidity in movement, which is to be expected from an early build. This did not prevent me from enjoying my time looking around the island for things to interact with. The developers mention adding new features and other things to make the game funnier and more immersive. I definitely see a lot of potential here for a great zen exploration game.
The game is currently available to play in its early stages, and you can check it out for yourself on itch.io. For up to date information on changes and additions to Wild Child, be sure to follow the developers on Twitter. For more games that feature a mutation of the MC1R gene, check out my coverage of Ayo The Clown!
- Nov 11, 2019
Jump into the role of a grape in Garden Story and help others around you. The social and life simulation game is getting a free demo starting this week!
Garden Story is a heartwarming game and falls right into one of my favorite genres – life simulation RPG and adventure game. In Garden Story, you play as Concord the grape. Concord has a new job: he has become the village guardian. It’s a task that would normally only require one to keep the village in good shape and the villagers happy, but something terrible has snuck onto the island under Concord’s watch! ROT!
As rot spreads through the little village on the deserted island Concord will have to protect the adorable villagers from the spreading rot. As you play along you will take on several tasks such as caring for garden plots, gathering resources, and upgrading your tools to better take care of your new home.
Garden Story Demo
The indie game will receive a free demo so you can try the game for yourself as well. The free demo will b available beginning November 12th and conclude on December 21st.
Check out this adorable Garden Story trailer as you wait for the official release on PC and Mac! A release date for this adorable indie game has not been given but I will make sure to update this article once we have more information on this!
For more free demos on other wholesome games, check out all the cute free Demos currently available on the Nintendo 3DS. No 3DS? Here are some other demos you can download for free right now.
- Nov 10, 2019
What I’ve seen from the developers of Planet Zoo, Frontier Developments, leading up to the Best Simulation Game‘s release, has been very impressive! From the very specific needs and behaviors of all animals to the challenging new modes, you can tell they really put a lot of love into this game! There’s so much more emphasis on animal care and education, including conservation efforts, that has me so excited to be a zoo keeper. I’d like to thank the developers for supplying me with a Steam Key so that I could put my tycoon skills to the test and show you all what you can expect before playing.
Zoo Tycoon Vs Planet Zoo
I’ve been a huge fan of creating habitats and taking care of my animals, all while making sure the guests are happy, for quite some time. I’ve put several hours into Zoo Tycoon back in 2001, which was developed by Blue Fang Games and published by Microsoft. They also went on to make a sequel and several amazing expansion packs. There was just the perfect balance of making the zoo your own and having some guidance with several tools at your disposal.
In 2013, Microsoft, along with Frontier Developments, released a Zoo Tycoon game for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. I found that game to be hugely disappointing with the lack of animal variety, and almost no layout and design choices for habitats or facilities. For example, you had to place food and water bowls in pre-selected zones. It scaled way too far back on the creative freedom that it became real boring, real fast. However, I could already tell by the Developer Journals that Planet Zoo was going to be a huge improvement and was excited to try my hand at another zoo management game.
When I started to play Planet Zoo, I was already excited at the fact that I could customize my own avatar. Then, I decided to go for Career Mode first as I know I should get some tips before I go off on my own and start from scratch in Sandbox Mode. I could not believe how beautiful the parks were and was eager to build some of my own. It was a little intimidating in fact because there was so much to work with, more than I have ever seen.
Now, not only can you place whatever you want, wherever you want in your habitats, but you can also make everything from scratch. This might make the game harder to get used to at first, if you’ve watched my Planet Zoo Gameplay Bloopers you’ll know what I’m talking about, but it becomes very addictive if you stick with it. Sure the paths and fences are harder to use then they have to be but little changes, such as adding digital boards and speakers for your guests to learn about your animals, makes it worth it.
It is worth mentioning that I lightly touched on the fact that you have to have available power for all of your facilities during my first couple of levels of gameplay, which is also a new feature. Meaning, there’s a bit more to do this time around, similar to Sim City. I’ll be continuing to play Planet Zoo and will write updated articles when I find out how it all goes together! If this already sounds like fun to you, you can buy the basic Planet Zoo game and/or the Deluxe Edition on Steam right here.
- Nov 9, 2019
Little Witch in the Woods is one of the cutest and most whimsical indie games currently on the horizons. Today the tiny development team released a magical new trailer.
Little Witch in the Woods is a fantasy role playing game where you get to live the life of a witch. The ability to use magic always adds such a special component to any game, especially adorable sim-life games like this one.
You play as Ellie, a little witch that has just come to a new town, and you are set to be a part of a “witch’s house”. Only, when you arrive, it appears that the town is near empty, and the witch’s house is in disrepair.
Everything you need to know about Little Witch in the Woods
For more information on this adorable game, check out my interview with the amazing development team behind this game!
You can follow Sunnyside Up the development team behind Little Witch in the Woods on Twitter right here.
More adorable magic games!
If you enjoy magic and also happen to love Stardew Valley you can take a look at Witchbrook an upcoming game that focuses on Magic school life, gardening and more!
- Nov 9, 2019
Donut County, devoloped by Ben Esposito and published by Annapurna Interactive (What Remains of Edith Finch), released on Steam, PS4, GOG, the App Store, and the Mac App Store in 2018. Thanks to the awesome Steam’s Halloween Sale, I was able to play this hilarious physics-based puzzle game. It is indeed reverse-Katamari from the gameplay mechanics and premise, to the colorful and whimsical world of strange characters. In Donut County, you control a hole and put everything and anything in it! My only complaint is that I wish the game was longer because I enjoyed it so much. You can check out my full gameplay of 2 hours below!
The idea of starting with consuming smaller objects so that you can grow-in-size and move on to larger ones, had me sold. But the game goes even further by adding a fully-formed and ridiculous plot about raccoons building a bigger trash empire through use of their technology. Apparently that includes this remote-controlled hole that brings what it swallows 999 feet underground. So don’t worry, no animals were harmed during your enjoyment of total destruction.
To shake things up a little, certain levels require a tad more strategy like with hard-to-reach objects. For example, you can upgrade the hole to have a launcher to shoot things upward, such as a frog to catch the flies. You can’t die and you can’t really mess up so you can just keep trying different things until they work! Eventually our friend the raccoon, BK, gets stuck down under with the entire town and helps to come up with a plan to send everyone back.
To check out the official website of Donut County, click here!
- Nov 9, 2019
Neon Noodles is a simulation and management game created by Vivid Helix. Much like Automachef, you’ll need to put together an efficient food factory, with a cyberpunk atmosphere, so that your robot chefs can get to work! Neon Noodles will be available on Steam Early Access here on November 29th, 2019. Furthermore, you can try out the free demo/open beta on Steam (Windows only) and expect regular updates to the game!
About Neon Noodles
Set in a dark and mysterious cyberpunk world, you are put in charge of the futuristic food factory known as Neon Noodles. Inspired by the open-ended machine-building puzzle games of Zachtronics such as Opus Magnum and Infinifactory, you design and build your own fully automated kitchen to prepare meals using robot chefs. Guacamole, bibimbap, ramen, spaetzle, paella and many more recipes are waiting for you to be optimized.
Key Features
- Automate your robot chefs through an intuitive replay and record system where you control the robot that creates the program, then edit it later if needed.
- Customize your cooking loops to be as simple, elaborate or streamlined as you want and compare your wits with other players around the world on the global leaderboards
- Solve endlessly replayable open-ended puzzles with over 100 recipes from around the world consisting of 200 unique ingredients.
- Travel the world and master the art of cooking through technological advancement in a cyberpunk setting filled with mysteries.
It seems that the developers are planning to bring Neon Noodles to consoles, release TBD. You can check out those details, and more, on their official website here.
